Happy Birthday RIP Upton Sinclair(1878-1968) ; Anne Meara-83 Sophia Loren( Sofia Scicolone)-78 Gary Cole-56 Joseph Lyle Taylor-48 Brad Beyer-39 Jon Bernthal-35 Charlie Weber-34 ; 1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother Frank road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.in Springfield, Massachusetts
September 19
Happy Birthday RIP Cass Elliot(Ellen Cohen 1941–1974) ; Rosemary Harris-85 Adam West(William Anderson)-82 Randolph Mantooth-67 Jeremy Irons-64 Twiggy(Leslie Hornby)-63 Joan Blunden-62 Cheryl O’Teari-50 Jimmy Fallon-38 Alison Sweeney-36 ; 1970 The Mary Tyler Moore Show” debuted on CBS.
September 18
Happy Birthday RIP Greta Garbo(Greta Gustafsson 1905-1990) ; Robert Blake(Michael Gubitosi)-79 Frankie Avalon(Francis Avallone)-73 Fred Willard-73 Beth Grant-63 James Gandolfini-51 Aisha Tyler-42 Jada Pinkett Smith-41 Lance “Armstrong” Gunderson-41 James Marsden-39 Daniel “Jason” Sudeikis-37 ; 1851 The first edition of The New York Times was published as “The New-York Daily Times”.
September 17
Happy Birthday RIP Roderick “Roddy” McDowall(1928-1998) John Ritter(1948-2003) ; John “Fee” Waybill-62 Cassandra Peterson-61 Rita Rudner-59 Bryan Singer-47 Kyle Chandler-47 ; 1972 The comedy series “M.A.S.H.” premiered on CBS.
September 16
Happy Birthday RIP Peter Falk(1927–2011) ; Lauren Bacall(Betty Perske)-88 Riley “B.B.” King-87 Ed Begley Jr.-63 David Copperfield(Kotkin)-56 Philip “Mickey” Rourke-56 Jennifer Tilly(Chan)-54 Richard Marx-49 Molly Shannon-48 Amy Poehler-41 Nick Jonas-20 ; 1908 – General Motors was formed in Flint, Mich., by William Durant ; 1972 “The Bob Newhart Show” premiered on CBS.
September 15
Happy Birthday RIP Agatha Christie (1890–1976) Roy Brocksmith (1945–2001) Wendie Jo Sperber (1958–2005) ; Norm Crosby-85 Tommy Lee Jones-66 William Oliver Stone-66 Josh Charles-41 Edward “Tom” Hardy-35 Prince Henry Charles Albert David Windsor-28 Heidi Montag-26 ; 1963, four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, in the deadliest act of the civil rights era.
September 14
Happy Birthday RIP Amy Winehouse (1983–2011) ; Walter Koenig-76 Jon “Bowzer” Bauman-65 Nigel “Sam” Neill-65 Alexis “Faith” Ford-48 Emmitt “Tyler” Perry-43 Jesse James-23 ; 1959, the Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
September 13
Happy Birthday RIP Mel Tormé (1925–1999) Nell Carter(Nell Hardy 1948–2003) ; Barbara Bain(Millicent Fogel)-81 Eileen Fulton(Margaret McLarty)-79 Richard Kiel-73 Winnifred Jacqueline Bisset-68 Peter Cetera-68 Jean Smart-61 Geri Jewell-56 Dominic Fumusa-43 Louise Lombard(Perkins)-42 Fiona Apple Maggart-35 Bennett Savage-32 ; 1993, Bill Clinton witnesses at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shaking hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
September 12
Happy Birthday Ian Holm Cuthbert-81 Linda Gray-72 Joe Pantoliano-61 Peter Scolari-57 Jason Statham-45 Paul Walker-39 Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan-34 Jennifer Hudson-31 ; 1959 – Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
September 11
Happy Birthday Henry Earl Holliman-84 Brian De Palma-72 Amy Madigan-62 Virginia Madsen-51 Christina “Kristy” McNichol-50 Richard “Moby” Hall-47 Joseph “Harry” Connick Jr.-45 Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges-35 ; 1789 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury ; 2001 – Al Qaida suicide hijackers crashed two jet airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, causing both 110-story twin towers to collapse killing nearly 3,000 people.